The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-15
ALI WOMEN CAN MARRY.
The Matrimonial Question Considered From an
Old Maids Standpoint.


woman in q mood for reflection. The
social duties of the day were over, and
some two hours would elapse before
the festal routs OF the night came on
She knew how to think. She had long
been trained TO it, because she was a
society queen, and society queens
don't do things unthinkingly.
They plan their campaigns much rs
Napoleon did. They look long way
ahead, and when the time for action
comes they march forth to victory.
Few generals have out-generaled a
brilliant society woman. Let them
seek to elude her as they may she will
attain her object, whatever 1T may
be, i'm the end.
But this woman's object had not
been marriage. She was every day OF
five-and-thirty She had the regal
reinsurance OF mature charms; form
like Venus, and best OF all. she had
knowledge OF men and women and
the world which enabled her to see
clearly and to arrive at conclusions
which she might never have deduced
from less wide experience. The book
she was reading dropped unheed-
ed into her lap, and her eyes
were fixed on vacancy. A favored
friend came unannounced into her
boudoir. lie was % man with tired
eyes and shabby coat. He was not
OF her sphere, but he had known her
since she was n child, and he came to
her sometimes when she had q quiet
hour, before the great house was
lighted and the revelry OF the night had
begun.
"Why have you never married?" he
said abruptly, slipping into n low seat
by her side and gazing at her much as
man looks at beautiful statue or
painting.
"You are rude" she said. "unpar.
donably so. No woman in her senses
will ever answer n question like that"
"Why not?"
because the real answer lies too
near the heart, and because no wom'
an cares to utter absolute falsehoods
to one whom she knows is her friend.
That there is always reason
you may rest assured. | do not be-
lleNt UUtTt 10 ~ WOIiHtH III tNiSltiiCt
who would not have married If some
thing had not occurred to disillusion.
ize her or to stand between her and
the man whom she had singled out
above all others to be her lord. Mar
riage being so eminently natural, |
\ can not well see how things could be
otherwise ] will wager all my dia-
monds that the man or woman does
not exist who has not considered the
advantages of marriage and who has
not seen in the course of his or her ex.
perience the mate whom they would
have chosen ii fate had not interpos.
ed. admit that you find u great
many people who declaim loudly
against marriage in general and senti-
mental marriages in particular, but
all this constitutes the thinnest veneer
OF cynicism.
1.-The bitterest philosopher who ever
acclaimed against marriage knew
that he lied, and took a iiendish de-
light in bringing all his weapons OF wit
and sarcasm to enlarge the lie for the
gullibility OF fools. There are doubt
less instances where the fact OF man
or woman's remaining single becomes
noble sacrifice for the sake OF some
body else's welfare, but i have no pa
thence with the cratic mortal who re-
mains single simply because he is too
selfish to take upon himself the re-
ponsibilities of marriage.
XYou have, no doubt, observed
Ut YOU never hear such bitter rail
ings from the lips OF men and women
who are broadly cultured. 1t is
narrow fool at best who devotes his
time to the purpose OF attacking the
follies OF mankind, for just as surely
as greatness is simplicity. so is il gen.
tie and kindly, and the more faith
does it have in it's fellow-men. II is
fashionable to scoff, but it isnot good
taste"
'Do you think the old saying is true,
that every woman could marry II she
would?"
81 do, indeed. And that every man
could do so goes without saying. II
is not every man who can marry the
woman he loves. but / will venture the
assertion that he need not go three
blocks away to find some beautiful
girl who would be very glad TO marry
him, and who would make him happy
all his DAYS. Matrlmonially speaking.
a man, OF course, has all the world be-
fore him. lie can 20 where he likes.
And there are maidens and maidens
to be had for the asking. As regards
women in this connection, the world
is not theirs. They live in a prescribed
sphere, and most choose therefrom
among the set OF men who admire
them most.
"And yet have never known OF a